Memory and Migration
Galata Museo del Mare
- Galata Museo del Mare
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- Serious game / Gamification
- Video Production
- Digital Strategy
- Exhibition design
- Interaction Design
Living stories of migrants through interactive tools
Travel is one of the main themes covered during a visit to the Galata Sea Museum, in order to document, narrate and evoke the “historical memory” of emigrants and immigrants. On a journey rich with symbolic references, this impressive historical and cultural background is enhanced through the use of forty interactive multimedia positions that tell the stories of migrants, fully involving the visitor.
The museum itinerary includes the MEM Memoria e Migrazioni section dedicated to Italian emigration by sea and recent immigration to Italy. More than 40 installations in 1,200 square meters create the suggestion of reliving the environments and eras to which the exhibits refer and explore the historical and current impact of migration on Italian society through multimedia and interactive information points.
An integral part of the visit is the Open Air Museum, an open-air museum that tells the story of shipyards and commercial-maritime activities since the 1800s by including the opportunity to visit the original Italian Navy submarine built by Fincantieri in 1976.
MEM – Memory and Migration
By using multimedia skills, typical nineteenth century settings have been created, giving voice to the characters and their stories. The aim is to link knowledge with social responsibility and to remember, with the help of multimedia, how this phenomenon closely relates to Italy today.
The exhibition itinerary begins by projecting the visitor into the Italian peasant world of the 19th century and follows with a reconstruction of 19th-century Genoa and the steamship “City of Turin” that carried hundreds of thousands of passengers to arrive at reconstructions of the different destinations of Italians around the world. Equipped with an interactive passport, the visitor enters the different environments and, in the shoes of a migrant of the time about to set sail for the Americas on an ocean liner, can listen to the stories of the different characters and interact with the multimedia stations composed of light and sound effects, holographic screens, high-resolution monitors, interactive touch-screen tables and RFID technology, under the banner of “doing” and not just observing. Thanks to the high degree of interactivity, visitors can select content according to their interests and consult archive footage, period photographs, and films reconstructed with the help of computer graphics, which made it possible to recreate typical objects and environments of the time.